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. 2023 Sep 12;51(1):245–257. doi: 10.1007/s00259-023-06416-9

Table 2.

Reproducibility coefficient (RDC*) grades for reproducibility

Grade Upper value of 95% CI for RDC* Segmentation Administered activity Whole liver volume Whole liver absorbed dose Whole liver normal tissue volume Whole liver NTAD Perfused normal tissue volume Perfused NTAD Total perfused tumour volume Total perfused TAD
1 < 1.5 Anatomic X X X
99mTc-MAA SPECT
2 ≥ 1.5 and < 2 Anatomic X
99mTc-MAA SPECT X X
3  ≥ 2 and < 3 Anatomic X X X X
99mTc-MAA SPECT X X
4 ≥ 3 Anatomic X
99mTc-MAA SPECT X X X X X

CI, confidence interval; RDC, reproducibility coefficient; 99mTc-MAA, technetium-99m macroaggregated albumin; NTAD, normal tissue absorbed dose; SPECT, single-photon emission computed tomography; TAD, tumour absorbed dose

*Corresponding to the maximum fold difference in the measurement from two different reviewers in 95% of cases